Various Artists - “Get Your Lie Straight: A Galaxy Of Funky Soul (Red-Hot Grooves From Galaxy Records, 1968-72)” CD. BGP / Ace Records. Catalogue no: CDBGPD 162. Year of release: 2004
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Track listing:
1 Rodger Collins–Foxy Girls In Oakland
2 The Debonaires–Stop, Let's Be United
3 Bill Coday–Get Your Lie Straight
4 Bobby Rush–Chicken Heads
5 Loleatta Holloway–Bring It On Up
6 Lenny Williams–I Love Her Too
7 J.J. Malone–People Say
8 Merl Saunders & Heavy Turbulence–The Iron Horse
9 Rodger Collins–I'm Leaving This Place
10 Tiny Powell–Bossy Woman
11 Bill Coday–Let Me Be Your Handy Man
12 Everyday People–Try The Life
13 Lenny Williams–Feelin' Blue
14 The Right Kind–My Money Is Funny
15 Ben & Larry– Manpower
16 J.J. Malone– One Step Away
17 Bill Coday–When You Find A Fool, Bump His Head
18 Rodger Collins–Your Love, It's Burning
19 Bobby Eaton–We Gonna Do Our Thing
20 The Debonaires–I Want To Talk About It (World) Parts 1 & 2
21 Bill Coday–I Got A Thing
22 The Sequins–I Get What I Want
Allmusic.com Review by Jason Ankeny (4 stars out of 5)
Galaxy Records was the black music division of the San Francisco-based Fantasy label, but while the parent company enjoyed hit after hit with flagship act Creedence Clearwater Revival, Galaxy languished in commercial limbo -- equally influenced by A&R chief Ray Shanklin's predilection for traditional blues and the psychedelia bubbling up from the Haight-Ashbury scene, Galaxy's homegrown soul was probably just too expansive and eccentric for the charts, but decades after the fact the label's output sounds amazing. Charting Galaxy's output from 1967 to 1972, Get Your Lie Straight assembles 22 slabs of Technicolor funk in the best post-Sly Bay Area tradition: Rodger Collins' "Foxy Girls to Oakland," an homage to the "true, fine mamas in the East Bay...strutting down East 14th" is alone worth the price of admission, but there's much here worth investigating, most notably "I Love Her Too" and "Feelin' Blue" -- a pair of cuts from future Tower of Power vocalist Lenny Williams -- and "Chicken Heads," a truly singular folk-funk freak-out courtesy of Bobby Rush.